Friday, July 30, 2010

Importance of Inspiring Stories

Inspiring stories can have life-defining impact on us. It is not an unusual sight to see someone’s life changing for better after coming across good and inspiring stories. Motivational stories can be inspired from real life events or they can just be a figment of our imagination. Not just children, even adults like to hear good stories. Positive thinking has a calming effect on human minds.

If we talk about effects of inspiring short stories on children, many psychologists recommend parents to tell motivational tales to their kids. It helps in broadening the thought process of the kids. It also helps in shaping mind of young ones. Inspiring stories can create beliefs and values in the minds of the children. They learn to appreciate value of terms like honesty, integrity, hard work and bravery etc.

There is no dearth of motivational stories in English or Hindi. Tales from Panchatantra, Jataka akbar birbal, and other fables are perfect examples of good tales. In English, one can go for stories like The boy who cried wolf, Aesops’ fables, The ugly duckling, Red riding hood, and The hare and the tortoise etc. Tales from Panchatantra have animals and birds as central characters and each of the fable tells a moral lesson.

One can find numerous inspirational short story collections that would make for substance reading for the young minds. Most of these tales are simple and easy to understand. They send a sound and clear message to the readers. Inspirational stories create aspiration. Good, inspirational stories are also available in form of audio and video books.